Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

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Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

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Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

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